Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

December 5, 2024 @7pm | Rally Reading Series: Jean Hannah Edelstein, Eugene Lim, & Sasha Vasilyuk | Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 | More info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-reading-series-jean-hannah-edelstein-euguene-lim-sasha-vasilyuk-tickets-1088734597489

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

October 30, 2024 | Words Without Borders Annual Gala | The Edison Ballroom, 240 W 47th St, New York NY 10036 | More info here: https://wordswithoutborders.org/events/the-2024-words-without-borders-gala/

October 17, 2024 @7pm MDT | University of Utah: Reading by 2024 Richard Scowcroft Prose Fellow Eugene Lim | 54 Finch Lane (1320 East 100 South), Salt Lake City, UT 84102 | More info here: https://www.visitsaltlake.com/event/university-of-utahs-guest-writers-series-presents-eugene-lim/61373/

October 1, 2024 @2pm | Talk at Pratt University. | https://www.instagram.com/p/DAYo_EzON3U/?hl=en

September 29, 2024  | Brooklyn Book Festival. Ellipsis Press will be with Black Sun Lit at table #223 | https://brooklynbookfestival.org/

August 29, 2024 @6pm PST/9pm EST | Los Angeles Public Library’s Sci-Fi Short Story Club. Explore Park Seonghwan’s short story “Readymade Bodhisattva” with sci-fi lovers from across the universe via Zoom, as selected by special guest Eugene Lim, on the occasion of his newly reissued novel Fog & Car. Email mtawin@lapl.org for the event link. More info here: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sci-fi-short-story-club-readymade-bodhisattva-park-seonghwani-eugene-lim

August 20, 2024 @6pm PST/9pm EST | Eugene Lim in conversation with Ian Dreiblatt | City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco, CA (Virtual) | Register and info here: https://citylights.com/events/eugene-lim/

August 18, 2024 @2PM | Eugene Lim & Daisuke Shen | The World’s Borough Bookshop, 3406 73rd St, Queens, NY 11372 | Register and more info here: https://www.theworldsboroughbookshop.com/event/queens-author-spotlight-eugene-lim-fog-car-daisuke-shen-vague-predictions-and-prophecies

July 18, 2024 6:30pm | Book launch of the new edition of Eugene Lim’s first novel Fog & Car. With Tan Lin | Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10013 | More info: https://www.yuandmebooks.com/events/eugene-lims-fog-car.

March 13, 2024 | Book Launch for Martin Wong’s Footprints, Poems, and Leaves and Das Puke Book | Poetry Project @ St. Mark’s Church 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 | More info here: https://www.poetryproject.org/events/martin-wong-celebration.

February 29, 2024 | Writers on Writing: Eugene Lim | Brown University; 70 Brown St; McCormack Family Theater, Room 132 | More info here: https://events.brown.edu/literary-arts/event/276684-eugene-lim.

February 2, 2024 | NEOMFA Visiting Writing Series Presents a Reading and Q&A with Eugene Lim | Wick Poetry Center; 126 S Lincoln St.; Kent, OH 44240 | More info here: https://neomfa.org/calendar.

November 15, 2023 | Creative Writing Lecture: Eugene Lim | Columbia University | More info here: https://arts.columbia.edu/events/creative-writing-lecture-eugene-lim

October 20, 2023 | Rogue Loon Reading series at Black Spring Books | 7PM EST | Black Spring Books | 672 Driggs Ave; 11211

October 3, 2023 | Off the Page Reading with Eugene Lim, in conversation with Kaz Uy | 7-9 PM EST | Queens College | More info here: https://qcenglish.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/oct-3-eugene-lim-kaz-uy/

October 1, 2023 | Brooklyn Book Festival | Ellipsis Press table | More info here

September 24, 2023 | Choir, Live, with Eugene Lim, Donald Breckenridge, Anelise Chen, Lisa Chen, and Danny Tunick | Amant Gallery | 315 Maujer St. Brooklyn, NY 11206 | More info here. Eventbrite link here.

September 8, 2023 | Ellipsis Press & Calamari Press reading | 1239 Reading series | a special quasi secret reading series run by Mark de Silva. Location and more info to be found (close to the date) here.

May 21, 2023 | Open Mic for Poets & Writers with Eugene Lim | 2:00 PM EST | Queens Public Library, Central Branch; 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432 | More info here: https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/open-mic-for-poets–writers-with-eugene-lim/015102-0423

May 6, 2023 | Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, Donald Breckenridge, & Eugene Lim read @ Unnameable Booooks | 6pm | Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt BK 11238. Flyer here.

March 30, 2023 | Come celebrate new books from Ellipsis Press with Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Breckenridge, and Laird Hunt | Come celebrate new Ellipsis books from Karen An-hwei Lee and Donald Breckenridge along with special guest Laird Hunt | 7:30 PM EST | Greenlight bookstore at the Fort Greene location: 686 Fulton Street (at South Portland), Brooklyn, NY 11217 | More info here: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/esther-yi-eugene-lim

March 21, 2023 | Esther Yi presents Y/N In conversation with Eugene Lim | 7:30 PM EST | Greenlight bookstore at the Fort Greene location: 686 Fulton Street (at South Portland), Brooklyn, NY 11217 | More info here: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/esther-yi-eugene-lim

March 8-11, 2023 | Ellipsis Press and I will be at the AWP Bookfair in Seattle with new books from Karen An-hwei Lee and Donald Breckenridge | Table T1201 | More info here: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/bookfair_exhibitors_list

February 15, 2023 | Panel on short fiction with Dawn Raffel, Kim Chinquee, and Eugene Lim | 7PM EST | Center for Fiction | More info here: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-craft-of-fiction-flash-fiction-and-innovative-forms-with-kim-chinquee-eugene-lim-and-dawn-raffel/

November 15, 2022 | THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE TEHCHING HSIEH FREE THINKING GROUP: An Archival Exhibition and Conversation Between Lisa Hsiao Chen & Eugene Lim. | 6:30-8 PM EST | NYU Bobst Library, North Reading Room, 70 Washington South, 8th floor, New York, NY. More info here: https://apa.nyu.edu/event/the-inaugural-meeting-of-the-tehching-hsieh-free-thinking-group-an-archival-exhibition-and-conversation-between-lisa-hsiao-chen-eugene-lim/

Sept 23, 2022 | No Season #2 : a cross-genre reading series hosted by Ari Braverman. With Mirene Arsanios, Chariot Wish, Eugene Lim, Robert Lopez, and Mayada Ibrahim. | 7 PM EST | Black Spring Books, 672 Driggs Avenue; Brooklyn, NY 11211. More info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-season-tickets-421879201047

April 21, 2022 | Lisa Hsiao Chen presents Activities of Daily Living. In conversation with Eugene Lim. | 7:30 PM EST | IN-PERSON: Live at Fort Greene’s GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE. More info here: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/lisa-hsiao-chen-eugene-lim.

March 24, 2022 | Writers on Writing at Brown University. | 5:30PM EST | More info: https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/events/eugene-lim

February 24, 2022 | At Home with Literati: Simon Jacobs & Eugene Lim. | 7PM EST | Come celebrate the publication of Simon Jacobs latest novel String Follow. He will be joined in conversation by Eugene Lim. | More info: https://www.literatibookstore.com/event/home-literati-simon-jacobs-eugene-lim

February 8, 2022 | BathHouse Events Reading Series at Eastern Michigan University. | 2PM EST | https://today.emich.edu/calendar/2022/2/8/12132

February 7, 2022 | Reading from Poetry Project Workshops. | 8PM EST | Virtually via Poetry Project. More info here: https://www.poetryproject.org/events/fall-2021-workshop-reading.

December 2, 2021 | Reading with Susan Daitch and Eugene Lim. | 6PM PST / 9PM EST | Virtually via City Lights Bookstore. More info here: https://citylights.com/events-category/susan-daitch-with-eugene-lim/.

November 18, 2021 | Come join our community of poets, writers, performers, and storytellers at a virtual open mic. Our featured reader is Queens-based writer Eugene Lim | 6:00-7:15PM | Virtual, via the Ridgewood branch of the Queens Public Library. Registration and more info at: https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/ridgewood-library-reading-series-eugene-lim-author-of-search-history/002501-1021

November 7, 2021 | Reading with Susan Daitch and Eugene Lim. | 5pm PST / 8PM EST; Virtually via Skylight Books and through Crowdcast | Watch the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/skylit-lim-daitch

October 26 – November 23, 2021 | Poetry Project Workshop: Friendship, Technique, and Experimental Prose | Virtual, 5-Sessions: 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23 | Info here: https://www.poetryproject.org/events/friendship-technique-and-experimental-prose-workshop-with-eugene-lim

October 14, 2021 |  Local authors Beth Gilstrap, Christopher Gonzalez, Sara Lippmann, and Eugene Lim discuss short fiction. | 7:00PM | Virtual, via The Astoria Bookshop | Recorded video of event: https://youtu.be/qa1unqxduQc

October 12, 2021 | Eugene Lim presents SEARCH HISTORY, with Jonathan Lethem | 7:30PM | Virtual, via Community Bookstore | Register and more info here: https://www.communitybookstore.net/eugene-lim-search-history | Recorded video of event: https://youtu.be/sgCaBiCKRRw

October 5, 2021 | Launch for SEARCH HISTORY with Gina Apostol  | 7PM | Virtual, via the Asian American Writers’ Workshop | Recorded video of the event: https://youtu.be/_WyUWvfONDo

February 2, 2021 | First Tuesdays Presents Eugene Lim| 7PM | Register for the free virtual event here. | More info for reading series here.

November 17, 2020 | Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2020: Eugene Lim | 2PM EST | Register for the free virtual event here. | I’ll be virtually talking David Hering as part of the University of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing.

November 14, 2020 | 2020 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award Reading| 4PM | Register for the free virtual event here. | Award winners are Simon Han (fiction) and Brent Newsom (poetry). Simon Han will be introduced by fiction judge Eugene Lim. Hosted by Director of Readings & Workshops East, Bonnie Rose Marcus.

August 4, 2020 | Launch party for Joni Murphy’s TALKING ANIMALS! | 7PM | RSVP for the virtual event here. | McNally Jackson event page.

March 10, 2020 | Celebrating Ten Years of Big Other! | A night of readings by nine Big Other contributors: Roberta Allen, Jared Daniel Fagen, Jennifer Firestone, Karen Heuler, Eugene Lim, Joe Pan, John Reed, Stephanie Strickland, and Kailey Tedesco. The event will be hosted by publishing editor John Madera. | 7-9PM | Mcnally Jackson in Brooklyn; 76 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11249. FB link

December 15, 2019 | Boog City’s “d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses” | Readers from Ellipsis Press and other local publishers | 3-6PM | The Bowery Poetry Club; 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012. FB link

October 7, 2019 Reading to celebrate the release of Simon Jacobs’s Masterworks | Reading with Miracle Jones, Jeanne Thornton, Eugene Lim, and Casey Plett. | Bluestockings Bookstore; 172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002 | FB link.

May 22, 2019 | Celebrating Emmanuel Bove’s My Friends with Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, Jonathon Sturgeon, and John Yau | Albertine Bookstore, 972 Fifth Ave; NY, NY, 10075 | Event Link.

May 19, 2019 Reading at Queens Museum | Reading with authors N.K. Jemisin, Eugene Lim, and Sabrina Vourvoulias, followed by a discussion moderated by scholar Joy Sanchez-Taylor | Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Queens, NY 11368 | event link.

April 6, 2019 Segue Reading | CALEB BECKWITH, EUGENE LIM & ALAN DAVIES | ZINC BAR 82 WEST 3rd STREET, BETWEEN THOMPSON AND SULLIVAN STS. | event link + flyer.

March 27-29, 2019 | AWP  | Oregon Convention Center.

  • Book Fair w/ Ellipsis Press | Table #T8011
  • Panel presentation: Form and Narrative at the End of the World, with Hilary Plum, Roy Scranton, Mark Doten, and Eugene Lim | Thursday, March 28, 3–4:15 (Portland Ballroom 252, Oregon Convention Center, level 2). | event link.
  • Ellipsis Press authors Karen An-hwei Lee, Evelyn Hampton, and Joanne Ruocco read with authors from Dorothy, FC2, and Sidebrow | March 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm | ADX, 417 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 | event link.
  • Nightboat Books & Black Sun Lit AWP Offsite Reading | Friday, March 29, 2019 at 8 PM – 9 PM | Passages Bookshop
    1223 NE M L King Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97232 | FB event link.

February 27, 2019 | 7PM | San Diego State University’s Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series  | event link.

December 14, 2018 | 7PM | Wendy’s Subway with Hayden Bennett, Claire Donato, hannah_g, Eugene Lim | Wendy’s Subway 379 Bushwick Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206. | FB event link.

December 13, 2018 | 7PM | AAWW – The Caregiver: Remembering Sam Park with Alexander Chee, T. Kira Madden, Mitchell Kuga, Eugene Lim and Daniel K. Isaac | Asian American Writers’ Workshop 112 W 27th St Suite 600 New York, NY 10001. | event link.

November 6, 2018 | 4:30PM | Dartmouth University: Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose series | Sanborn Library, Sanborn House, 19 N. Main Street, Hanover, NH, 037556. | event link.

November 2, 2018 | 6PM | Keynote Reading for the SUNY Albany Science Fiction Festival | The Linda; 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12206. | event link.

October 27, 2018 | time TBD | Chapbook Launch for Ian Dreiblatt with Anna Gurton-Wachter, Nicole Wallace, and Eugene Lim | Sunview Luncheonette; 221 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222.

October 17, 2018 | 4:15PM | Pomona University | Pomona College; Ena Thompson Reading Room, Crookshank Hall; Room #108; 140 W. Sixth Street.

September 27, 2018 | 4:30PM | University of Maine’s New Writing Series | Allen and Sally Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104).

June 12, 2018 | 7PM | On Human Limits: Evening of Readings with Mary Donnelly, Eugene Lim, Peter Rostovsky and Emily Schultz | Present Company
254 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11206 | FB Event page

June 3, 2018 | 10AM-11:50AM | Left Forum: Experimental Literature and the Creation of Non-Monetized Communicative Spaces with Peter Dimock, Hilary Plum, Ian Dreiblatt, and Eugene Lim | John Jay College of Criminal Justice; The City University of New York; 899 10th Avenue (between 58th and 59th Streets); New York, NY 10019

June 2, 2018 | 2PM | Newtown Literary hosts Celebrating Asian/American Writers of Queens | Queensboro Hill Library 6005 Main St, Flushing, New York 11355 | FB event page

May 16, 2018 | 8PM | Reading at Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church with Marcella Durand |  131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 | https://www.poetryproject.org/events/marcella-durand-eugene-lim/ | FB event page

May 5, 2018 | 2:30PM | Newtown Literary’s free writing class  | Queens Library at Jackson Heights, 35-51 81st Street | https://www.newtownliterary.org/writingclasses

April 15, 2018 | 4PM | Pretext Reading Series | Studio 10 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, New York 11206 | FB event page.

April 11, 2018 | Reading at St. John’s University

April 4, 2018 | Reading at Yale University’s Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) | https://aacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/event/guest-speaker-eugene-lim-asian-american-literaturewriting

March 11, 2018 | 7PM | KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction | KGB bar 85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003 | FB event page.

February 24, 2018 | 4PM | Making Roads: Eugene Lim and Oki Sogumi | Penn Book Center 130 S. 34th Street; Philadelphia, PA 19104 | http://www.pennbookcenter.com/event/making-roads-eugene-lim-and-oki-sogumi | FB event page.

Jan 29, 2018 | 6:30-8PM | Mid-Manhattan at 42nd Street, inside the flagship NYPL  42nd Street building (42nd street and 5th Ave) | NYPL’s Mid-Sentence author series | Eugene Lim (Dear Cyborgs) moderates a conversation between Leni Zumas, (Red Clocks), and Simon Jacobs, (Palaces). NYPL event page. FB event page.

Jan 6, 2018 | 4PM | 205 Hudson St, New York, NY 10013-1808 | Hunter MFA Thesis Closing Reception, Concert, and Reading with Ashna Ali, Laura Henriksen, Callie Garnett, Peter Dimock, Daniel Poppick, Eugene Lim. Organized by Ian Dreiblatt. FB event page.

December 10, 2017 | Dead Rabbits Reading Series|  DTUT 1744 2nd Avenue @ 91st Street | https://deadrabbitsreading.wordpress.com/

November 17, 2017 | Launch for the Encyclopedia Project Vol.3 L-Z | Poetry Project, 131 E 10th St, New York, NY 10003 | https://www.poetryproject.org/events/encyclopedia-project-vol-3-l-z-launch/

October 27, 2017 | 6:30pm | MFA Creative Writing at LIU presents a reading with Visiting Professor Eugene Lim | Spector Lounge, 4th Floor, Humanities Building, LIU Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201 | FB announcement.

October 17, 2017 | 7:30pm | Dixon Place presents: “Experiments & Disorders” curated by Tom Cole and Christen Clifford | Featuring Eugene Lim & Nicole Goodwin | Dixon Place 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002 | http://dixonplace.org/performances/experiments-disorders-10-17/

October 11, 2017 | 8pm | DogWrite | Poetry Project, 131 E 10th St, New York, NY 10003 | Eileen Myles, Andre Alexis, Nicole J. Georges, Eugene Lim

September 21, 2017 | 7:30pm | Pete’s Reading Series | 709 Lorimer St Brooklyn, NY, 11211 | FB link.

September 17, 2017 | Brooklyn Book Festival http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/events/

August 1, 2017 | 7:30PM | Green Apple Books | 1231 9th Avenue, SF CA 94122 | Reading with Eugene Lim and Mauro Javier Cardenas.

July 26, 2017 | 7:30PM | Skylight Books | 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 | Reading with Harold Abramowitz, Eugene Lim, Janice Lee, and Karen An-hwei Lee.

July 14, 2017 | 7PM | Asian American Writers’ Workshop | 112 W 27th Street, 6th Floor; New York, New York 10001 | Patty Yumi Cottrell, Anelise Chen, and Eugene Lim reading;  moderated by Lisa Chen.

July 13, 2017 | 6-8PM | Riverrun Bookshop | 12 Washington Avenue; Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

June 23, 2017 | 6PM | NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library | 455 5th Ave, New York, New York 10016 | Eugene Lim (DEAR CYBORGS) and Anelise Chen (SO MANY OLYMPIC EXERTIONS) discuss their new novels.

June 22, 2017 | 7PM | Astoria Bookshop | 31-29 31st Street; Astoria, NY 11106 | With Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, and John Yau. FB event page.

June 15, 2017 | 7:30PM | Prospect Lefferts Greenlight Bookstore | 632 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225 | Vol 1. Brooklyn event with Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, and Joni Murphy. FB event page. Greenlight events page.

June 8, 2017 | 7PM | Community Bookstore | 143 Seventh Avenue; Brooklyn, NY 11215 | Dear Cyborgs launch! With Jeremy M. Davies. FB event page.

May 7, 2017 | 3PM | Swift Hibernian Lounge | 34 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003 | Local Knowledge Magazine reading series with Donald Breckenridge, Lisa Chen and Eugene Lim hosted by Sanjay Agnihotri. FB event page.


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